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SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers are preparing to introduce legislation nearly doubling the state’s minimum wage from $8.25 to $15 per hour. While anyone in Illinois would be delighted with a nearly 100 percent pay raise, ...

Op-ed by Peter Navarro – Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy – In his inauguration speech, President Trump promised: “We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and Hire American.” The president will sign an ...

The energy debate is heating up during these long, cold weeks of North American winters. Which makes more sense for today and the future: so-called “renewable resources” or “fossil fuels”? Manufacturers have encouraged the development ...

By Michael Stumo, CEO of Coalition for a Prosperous America – Trump administration officials have just returned from Beijing after two days of talks meant to resolve China’s aggressive trade and economic cheating. President Trump and Chinese President ...

Up until six months ago, Illinois manufacturers were enjoying a newfound enthusiasm about their industry. For eight straight months, monthly surveys conducted by the Technology & Manufacturing Association showed their members expected the next 12 ...

While a majority of the American public outside of the D.C. Beltway say they haven’t been affected by a budget dispute shutting down 25% of the U.S. Federal Government, the impact is beginning to grow. ...

The third consecutive class from Ridgewood High School completed basic CNC training at TMA last Thursday at TMA’s Schaumburg Education & Training Center. Their TMA instructor Paul Newman presented each of the six students with ...

SCHAUMBURG – The state of Illinois adopted 250 new laws that went into effect January 1, 2019, with three key measures of particular interest to Illinois employers: New Illinois Service Member Employment and Reemployment Act ...

Other Manufacturing News

SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 22 February 2019 – Newtec – a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment and technologies for satellite communications – today announced it is collaborating with Wind River to utilize the Wind River Titanium Cloud virtualization platform to develop a Newtec 5G solution based on the Newtec Dialog® multiservice platform. 3GPP has defined a service-based architecture where flexibility and dynamic adjustments are the key drivers to meet performance and cost requirements....
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Ensures business travelers and hosts can safely rent and stay long-term in furnished accommodations without fear of fraudFebruary 21, 2019, San Francisco, CA: Onfido, the award-winning global identity verification platform, today announced a partnership with 2nd Address to verify the identity of its users and build trust through its community of business professionals looking for furnished, long-term rental accommodation in US cities. 2nd Address joins Onfido’s growing roster of leading clients in the rentals and...
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Machine learning technology predicts results for brands in real time A new artificial intelligence platform offers a solution to the perennial problem of flawed calculation of campaign effectiveness, effectively eliminating the chronic conundrum of budget wastage. Leadmark, an AI marketing platform, provides internationally an effective solution that steers ad spend to the optimum promotion channels, while simultaneously measuring ROI to be attributed to sales or other response KPIs. The results provided have an accuracy rate...
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New CPU will support SSDs, flash controllers, and IoT applicationsCAMBRIDGE, UK – 21 Feb 2019 - UltraSoC, the leading provider of embedded analytics for the RISC-V ecosystem, today announced full support within its embedded analytics architecture for Western Digital’s RISC-V SweRV Core™ and associated OmniXtend™ cache-coherent interconnect. The two companies have worked together to create a debug and on-chip analytics ecosystem that will support the requirements of both Western Digital’s internal development teams, and third...
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Gütenbach (Germany) and Baar (Switzerland), 21.02.2019 – Capvis acquired the wet chemical activities of the South German equipment manufacturing company RENA in a challenging environment in 2015 and transferred them to the newly founded RENA Technologies GmbH. Thanks to structural and operational improvements over the last four years, RENA Technologies has established itself as an international market leader and has created many new jobs. Following this successful reorganisation and repositioning, Capvis has decided to sell...
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